UFC UNDISPUTED 2009 ARTICLES

February 16, 2010 - Brian Farrell, CEO of publisher THQ, shares his belief in the future of digital distribution, that Natal probably won't be a match for the new Red Faction, and how the company tried and failed to draw in core gamers on Wii.

August 5, 2009 - For Xbox 360 owners, you won't find many overflowing with passion and enthusiasm for the recent retail game releases. G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra is a busted and boring version of Contra. King of Fighters XII is a big disappointment with a frustratingly laggy online component. The Watchmen game, for which a retail release was just issued that combines parts 1 and 2, is about as exciting as reading a blank sheet of paper. If somebody wants to put a disc into their Xbox 360, it's going to have to be something released at the start of the summer, say Arc System Works' BlazBlue, Yuke's UFC Undisputed 2009 or Volition's Red Faction: Guerrilla, even reaching back to Capcom's Street Fighter IV and Resident Evil 5. Or, if the weekly Xbox Live Top 10 figures are any indication, many choose to continue blasting away online in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Gears of War 2, and Halo 3.

July 28, 2009 - THQ saw a record high 77% increase in year-over-year net sales ($243.5 million from $137.6 million) for the June quarter.
As president and CEO Brian Farrell points out, this was due in part by the strong sales of UFC 2009 Undisputed.

July 7, 2009 - THQ just made a post on the UFC Community Site letting people know exactly what to expect from the patch that is going fix many of the online issues that people have been experiencing in UFC 2009 Undisputed.

July 2, 2009 - We've turned to IGN's biggest boxing and MMA fans, Sports Editor Nate Ahearn and Games Editorial Manager Jeremy Dunham, to sort out which sports fighter rules the ring -- Fight Night Round 4 or UFC Undisputed 2009. Click the video player below to hear their thoughts on which is the better game.

July 2, 2009 - There are fighting games, there are sports games and then there are sports games about fighting. And fans of the latter category are rabid in their devotion to their pugilistic passions: boxing and mixed martial arts.

July 2, 2009 - A rumor that was reported by Joystiq is running rampant over at mixedmartialarts.com. According to a post made by the long-time user Golden Boy, MMA managers were informed that if their client(s) agrees to appear in EA Sports's MMA game they'll be banned from the UFC for life.

June 30, 2009 - This time it's Bungie's Halo 3 that manages to pull ahead of everything else for the top spot on the weekly Live activity rankings posted on majornelson.com. Treyarch's Call of Duty: World at War drops to number two, with Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Epic's Gears of War 2 trailing behind. Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV, EA's FIFA 09, and Valve's Left 4 Dead continue to be popular, and it seems people are still hitting Radical Entertainment's Prototype pretty hard.

June 23, 2009 - Activision has to be pretty happy right now. With Modern Warfare 2 on track to be released this November, Treyarch's World at War hitting number one on Xbox Live, and Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare not far behind, it seems the Call of Duty money-making machinery is in no danger of slowing down. Other top 10 regular's like Bungie's Halo 3, Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV, and Epic's Gears of War 2 make appearances high up on the top Xbox Live titles list, along with Radical Entertainment's new open-world superhero title Prototype. Castle Crashers on Xbox Live Arcade and the RC-AirSim community game continue to rank high.

June 11, 2009 - If you've been playing UFC 2009 Undisputed online, you may have noticed that some are using an exploit in the game's online code (programming language). The cheat essentially let people disconnect from online matches without taking a loss or a penalty of any kind. THQ announced today that they are hard at work on a patch that will fix this and many other issues with UFC 2009.

May 26, 2009 - If ever there was a game poised to be made into a series that will likely sell millions of games over an extended period of time, this is it. UFC is one of the fastest rising new sports and ready to steal the thunder from boxing and wrestling. The game has launched with positive reviews and you can read IGN's full impressions right here. But should you jump into the fight on PS3 or 360? We're here to let you know which version is best so read on to find out.

May 19, 2009 - With so many games being released on so many platforms throughout the year, it's tough to keep track of which titles are shipping out each week. So we've compiled a handy list that will be updated weekly to let you know what's hitting stores now. Tuesdays are the most common day for videogame releases, so that's when we'll update Now Shipping.

May 19, 2009 - UFC fans have had to wait more than five years for a legitimate recreation of their favorite animalistic activity. Now, they're being greeted with UFC 2009 Undisputed, the first in what hopes to be a long-running franchise built from the ground up by THQ and the development team at Yuke's Media Creations. Because we've had to wait so long before venturing back to the virtual octagon, there's a ton of pressure on this UFC game to accurately depict the complexities of the sport while still making it a blast to pummel your opponent's head into chunky gravy. Did they succeed? Keep reading to find out.

May 4, 2009 - One all-important game mode that has remained in the dark is Career Mode, the quintessential feature that has you build an up-start brawler and take him through the ranks with the hope of being crowned champion before all is said and done. I'm here to remove some of that mystery.

May 1, 2009 - The 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo has ditched its lower-key approach from previous years and is supposed to put the "big" back into the "big show" once again. Scheduled to run from June 2-4 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, E3 2009 showcases several of the year's hottest games from the industry's most powerful publishers and developers.

April 30, 2009 - In the world of Ultimate Fighting, technique and discipline will always win over brute force. That's the bottom line, according to Dean Michael Smith, a congenial gent who plays some mean guitar and also happens to compete in the UFC – Ultimate Fighting Championships. He's been in and out of the circuit since 2002, when he travelled to the US to train and compete on a global level.